Re: [LI] LUG Blr Meeting

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <Suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is something which ~can~ be done.

> The only other point - any suggestions from folks on the LI list for
> stuff to be added to the Linux and Government section. I know it's
> kinda late, but help == help always.

Most of the Govt of India servers (NIC / ERNET etc) are 
standardized on old sun workstations (smi/svr4 generally) or similar 
ancient versions of *Nix.  Of course, there ~are~ some old 
VAX/VMS boxes around.

How do you convince them to move to Linux, and update their 
infrastructure?  Most of what they use is unsupported and full of 
security holes (as someone pointed out - gaining root access to 
these servers is very easy, and that's what MilW0rm did to screw  
BARC).

The issue is not making the Govt. migrate to Unix - it is about 
helping them to update themselves.

Suggestions?

--s


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